Mark Lawrence (author) - King of Thorns (2012)

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We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

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Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man's memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

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There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

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There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

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And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

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Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

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A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

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If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

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